Posted on 09/11/2017 12:34:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Level check, test, one two hey, you know what, this may be working, bring the mix minus up just a little bit. Were in Los Angeles today, folks. The first day is always a work in progress, have to test it on the air. Bring the audio up just a little bit. Right there we go. My gosh, we did this 30 seconds. The only thing not working is the clock, so be patient. Weve got a digital clock but I never use digital. Likely you wont even know the difference, folks. Its great to be here from Los Angeles, as I say, although as long as Im here, it doesnt matter where here is. Its Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network. Heres the telephone number if you want to be on the program: 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.
Under normal circumstances, I would not mention this because the rule of thumb is, you dont talk about nattering nabobs that dont matter a hill of beans. But in this case, we may be, I may be youre not Im going through one of the greatest smears of my career, and, believe me, folks, there have been many smears. (interruption) You think Im wrong to talk about this? Good, cause it doesnt matter even if you did think Im wrong, Im gonna bring this up.
Cause this smear is well, I was gonna say harmless. Its not harmless to me. But this is all over the place that I told people there is no storm. That I told people you dont have to run away from Florida, you do not have to evacuate, because I said the storm isnt coming. I did not say that. I did not say the storm is not big. I didnt say the storm is gonna go somewhere else. They did. I didnt say anything. There is not a thing that I said about this that anybody can prove I was wrong about, not a single thing.
Now, why is this happening? Ive had a lot of people send me emails: Rush, I dont understand. I heard what you said. Let me explain this, folks, as best I can. We in the United States and this is a recently evolved theory of mine that we in the United States are actually living 1984, the novel by Orwell, in a number of ways. And what has taken over is the concept of groupthink.
I am one of the last remaining powerful, influential members of the media that does not participate in it. I do not participate in consensus. In fact, I run away from it. Consensus is what everybody else thinks, such as the consensus of scientists on global warming. You cannot have consensus in science. Science is not up for a vote. It doesnt matter that 90% of scientists think anything. That doesnt make anything so, and it doesnt make anything scientifically unassailable. Scientists use various theories to establish credibility of theorems and various other ideas that they have, and its constantly tested. Its not up to somebodys opinion and its not up to somebodys vote.
But the whole notion of groupthink and consensus and this is another way of saying what the media does. Let me illustrate it this way. Ive made the point over the years, recent number of years, that when the media reports a story, they have this knack of making it appear that everybody thinks this. So if youre an outlier or if you dont think that, youre in a tiny little minority, and then you become castigated and regarded as a kook or whatever.
Its nothing more than groupthink and consensus. And it exists because the people who believe in groupthink or consensus are simply people who doesnt wish, cannot accept, cannot accept or cannot deal with a challenged worldview or an alternative idea about anything, because they have developed this little safety of a cocoon in which they live, and they congregate together.
It doesnt matter if its climate change or any other issue, if anybody comes along and doesnt comport and doesnt go along with it, that person has to be stigmatized, destroyed, and cast out. And what happens when everybody falls pray to groupthink or consensus, thats the end of truth. That is the end of inquiry, its the end of curiosity, and its the end of suspicion.
Now, in our era here, you know, somebody has to define groupthink, somebody has to be the, quote, unquote, leader of it. Global warming or climate change is one of the most convenient ways to illustrate this. But almost all of these groupthink or consensus beliefs originate on the left, and thats why everything in America is becoming politicized.
I played golf on Saturday with a noted Hollywood actor. Not gonna mention his name because of course I did not seek his permission to share details of discussions. One of the things when people talk to me, I assure them its all off the record, and we were talking about Hollywoods bad box office. And I said, What do you think of the theory Hollywood believes its Rotten Tomatoes is the reason why the box office is down?
He said, What?
I said, Rotten Tomatoes, you know, the crowd-sourced public review and opinions of movies.
He said, No. Thats not what it is. How long has Rotten Tomatoes been around?
I said, A long time.
He said, Right, so why now is Hollywood having a cut to the chase. He believes that Hollywoods politicization of their entertainment medium is now starting to catch up to them. Look at the National Football League. The National Football League opening game Thursday night, Tom Brady, biggest marquee star in the NFL against Kansas City Chiefs, nothing else going on except the hurricane forecasting, and their ratings were down 17%. I mean, it was a huge decline.
People said, Well, it was the hurricane. Yeah, except the U.S. Open being televised the next night was up 36% while the hurricane coverage was even more intense. Thats not what it is. It is the politicization of everything. And especially now our entertainment venues, entertainment options, everythings becoming politicized. You cant escape it. Theyre forcing it on you. And there are however many people voted for Trump, 60 million, whatever the number is, there are that many people who are, at one stage or another, resisting all of this.
Theyre either not going to the movies. Theyre not watching the Drive-By Media. Theyre not watching the NFL. It is a slow creep that is happening, and of course the leaders of these industries trying to figure this out because of groupthink and because of consensus, cannot be honest with themselves about what their problems are, which means theyre never gonna be able to fix them. You look, ESPNs numbers and subscribers are way, way down, I mean, hellishly so, and thats bringing down Disney.
Theres something in common with all of this, and that is the politicization. At the Steelers-Browns game yesterday, I dont know how many people know this, they had a problem, one of the preseason games, a number of Browns players sat down for the national anthem or otherwise protested it. And so the Browns players decided to do something different.
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They recorded a 30-second video that was played in the stadium on the scoreboard, and it featured several African-American Browns players listing their grievances, their social justice grievances. And they demanded that the owner and his wife be part of this, which the owner and his wife did. And in exchange for that, the players linked hands and didnt sit down, I dont believe, for the national anthem.
Now, I guarantee you I dont know if the networks played the video or not. I watched the game, but I caught it late. (You know, weve been going through some interesting travel logistics here.) I dont know that the network played it, but I guarantee you the people in the stands, if they saw it, thats not why theyre there. Its not why theyre paying these exorbitant prices. And so this little This creeping consensus or groupthink or liberalism I mean, whatever you want to call it is creeping into virtually every aspect of life.
Ill give you an example. Eric Bolling. You all know who Eric Bolling is. He was an up-and-coming anchor and personality at Fox News. Hes a very conservative man who was a former commodities trader. He was hired by Roger Ailes at Fox and he ended up having his own show at five p.m. called The Specialists and then came the sexual haris-ment or harass-ment complaints. They took Eric off the air while they investigated. Then last week they announced that his suspension was permanent. He was to be fired. The investigation, I guess, had determined that he had engaged in this.
The next day, his 19-year-old son died, and they think it was a drug overdose. Social media overflowed with human debris celebrating the death of Eric Bollings son, claiming Eric Bolling deserved to have his son die because of all the horrible things Eric Bolling has said about African-Americans and women. Now, I dont know a single thing Eric Bolling has said about African-Americans and women, and I dont know the details of Eric Bollings circumstances after having been accused, alleged to have engaged in sexual harassment. But thats pure pond scum, and thats infesting social media, and its growing and its sponsored. Its promoted. And this encroaching degratory
I mean, these are the people that talk about, We need to bring out the better versions of ourselves. These people are corrupting everything! They are anonymous. They get to say whatever they want to say. But I guarantee you people that go on social media and read this stuff, it cannot help but affect you when youre inundated by it, when you cant escape it. Imagine and it only works one way. If a leftist TV or movie personalitys son had died and noted conservatives went on social media and celebrated and said the leftist celebrity deserved it, the Drive-By Media would find out who did it and make it the lead story of the nightly news.
And it would be a subject for the whole week, about how mean-spirited all of this conservatism is, while liberalism and its associated activities are literally destroying the fabric of our society in terms of morality and decency and behavior while demanding that everybody behave and talk as they do or else! So here comes Hurricane Irma, and when Hurricane Irma starts, Im observing something that is phenomenal to me. The original forecast tracks of Hurricane Irma Let me Weve got Dittocam here, right? Let me find this for you. I want to find the original tracks.
I want you to look at these original tracks here. (shows image) You see that? Now, if you look at the state of Florida, on your right of the state of Florida is where everybody thought this hurricane was gonna go for a week. A week! Before they changed their minds. See, all of those models taking this hurricane, Hurricane Irma, out to the Atlantic Ocean, maybe up to North Carolina and South Carolina? Those are the original tracks, and it was during those forecasts that, in south Florida, wa run on bottled water began to the point that there was no bottled water in south Florida while the forecast track looks as you see to the right or east of Florida there.
Well, now, Im a social commentator as well as a political commentator and I found that fascinating. How can there be a run on water with a hurricane forecast thats not even expected to hit us? Now, granted, these are long range, but theres a lot of them. The vast majority of Look at it again. The vast majority of those models and included in there is the NHC, the real track. You can dig it out there. I cant get close here, but you can dig it out, the real track that went up the west coast of Florida. By the way, it didnt hit Tampa.
All night last night it was gonna wreck Tampa, was gonna ruin Tampa. I was watching it. It wasnt gonna go to Tampa. It did go to Marco Island and Naples. Anyway, during all of this, theres a run on bottled water to the point that in West Palm Beach a semitrailer delivery of bottled water to a grocery store had to be protected by local police for fear that people would show up and try to rob or steal. Im saying, Why is this happening when this hurricane isnt even gonna hit here, at least according to these forecasts?
So I explained how the world works. I explained how local media seeks to hype these storms cause its good for ratings, and its also good for grocery stores and advertisers that sell things you need during a hurricane. Meanwhile, the forecast tracks dont have it anywhere near. They got closer and closer and closer during the 10 days, or maybe it was a week, and then I suggested, Folks, theres no reason to panic. You have water in your house right now. Its called a faucet. All you have to do is go get some empty bottles and fill em up, and theres your water.
And in many cases its the same stuff that youre gonna buy in the bottles, and its gonna be a lot cheaper. So you can get some Ziploc bags, fill em 75% full, put them in the freezer as a standby. Its smart advice, reasonable advice, economical advice. Never did I say the hurricane wasnt gonna hit, because nobody knows. Never did I say the hurricane was not a bad one. Never did I say you should ignore the forecast. Never!
Nothing that is out there that I supposed said on social media is true and I defy any of you SJWs to call here and run by anything youve heard that I said, and let me explain the truth to you. 800-282-2882. This is a series of lies and misstatements, and this is because I do not heel. I do not join everybody in the conventional wisdom, the consensus and the groupthink. I did not join in the panic. I did not join in helpless wailing and, Oh, woe is me! I did not join in any of the things and I specifically didnt join the idea that global warming or climate change was causing this.
I also pointed out that whenever a storm like this happens, you cant avoid it; in the media people are gonna say its happening because of climate change. Its stronger than ever because of climate change. This is the seventh largest hurricane to hit Florida. The hurricane in 1935, Labor Day, was much stronger than Hurricane Irma. Thats before anybody knew about CO2 and the greenhouse effect and climate change.
Shouldnt the hurricanes today be far worse than ever if what theyre saying is true? Youre not supposed to think this way, folks, and youre not supposed to ask that question. Youre not supposed to give people an alternative way of looking at something outside the groupthink. If you do, theyre gonna come after you and try to destroy your credibility and smear you, because they have an agenda that they seek to advance using every public event they can.
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RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, this smear (chuckles) of me This smear is unlike most of the previous attempts that the left has made, because there isnt even a misunderstood joke to base this on. Theres no insult to anybody to base this on. This has been based on a complete fabrication and intentional misrepresentation of what I said. I never said the hurricane was fake news. I never said it wasnt gonna be big. I never said to ignore the forecast.
I never said anything that you have heard Al Roker or anybody else in the Drive-By Media saying. But because I dont subscribe to the groupthink, because I dont subscribe to the consensus, they think I dont care and when you dont care, why, thats the greatest sin of all, and thats what they think is going on, which gives them the justification. But I wanted to deal with this, folks, because this is the worth example of a smear that I have experienced yet.
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RUSH: You know what is stunning, folks? The degree to which lies and disinformation have become commonplace in the Drive-By Media. Its stunning to me how many people actually believe that hurricanes are a recent phenomenon brought about by man-made climate change. If youre a Millennial or an iGen if youre under 34 it is shocking what you dont know. Its shocking the lies that you have been taught and the lies that you see as factual news each and every day. Its stunning, folks. Literally stunning.
I read a piece today on Florida because it got hit by the hurricane. Nobody knows how many hurricanes have hit Florida. Florida was uninhabitable at the time this nation was discovered. Zachary Taylor, a United States president, went down there once fighting the Seminole Indians, and he said (summarized), You know what? This place is hell. This place is absolute hell. I wouldnt trade you a square mile of Michigan for the entire state of Florida. It wasnt until recently, in national terms, that Florida was even settled.
And it was actually begun by a man named Henry Flagler. He built a railroad down there, and it wasnt until we had advanced with the ability to move a lot of earth but manage water. Florida wasnt just the Everglades; the whole state was a swamp. It was nothing but mosquitoes and humidity, and it was so hot that was uninhabitable. Long before climate change ever became some dream in the scientists brain long before anybody knew anything about fossil fuels and CO2 it was uninhabitable. Nobody knows how many hurricanes have hit Florida.
But Ill tell you what they do know, that the hurricane on Labor Day 1935 is the strongest and the worst. Irma is number seven. There is no way that climate change made this hurricane or Katrina or Wilma (which hit in 2000), any of these, worse than whats come before it. Everything about the weather, if related to climate change, is largely exaggerated, untrue, or politicized. And yet thats what a growing percentage of Americans believe. And you cant blame them; thats all theyve been taught, and thats all theyve been told.
Its just mind-boggling when you realize it, and thats just one topic. You know, climate change and weather? You know, when that gets politicized You have to realize when the NFL gets politicized, movies have been politicized for a while everything is then you have to understand, Okay, well, whos doing the politicizing and why? And the answers are inescapable. I happen to have answers and I happen to explain them, and I happen to do it effectively, and so I am a target, because I dont go with the groupthink and many of you dont.
Thats why Donald Trumps elected. Donald Trump is elected by people who refuse to go along with the consensus, with the groupthink, with the way of thinking. Its an amazing thing. I literally can tell you now that and I think most of you know this the odds are, if you are going if you see anything written or broadcast about me in the mainstream media, the odds are most of it or all of it is untrue. That has to be your default position now when reading it. And its not just me. I mean, by no means is it just me.
But I happen to be the Mister Big of the vast right-wing conspiracy, and so taking out me they think can take out a lot of the way of thinking. Now, look at this. TheHill.com. Joe Concha. Joe Concha I always thought was a good guy. I mean, I have seen Joe Concha on Fox News, and Joe Concha, when my name has come up, has been accurate in reporting on me. Look at this. TheHill.com. This is from September the 8th. Whats the day today? This is the 11th. This is three days it ago. So thatd be Friday, right?
I would love you to experience one of these things, but I am forced by my broadcast partners to get out of there cause theres a business to run. But I would love to stay! We are fine, by the way. I am reluctant to say so because so many people arent, but people have been asking. Do you have any doubt? Rush Limbaugh will be evacuating his home in Palm Beach, Fla., just days after stating that creating panic around hurricanes helps advance a climate change agenda. It does! I have a story here lets see its from Breitbart.
Irma at Landfall Comes in Seventh Behind 1935 Labor Day Storm. What theyve done is theyve published all the links of one Google search on climate change and hurricane, and it just goes on and on and on. Everybody in the Drive-By Media linked climate change to this. And some of them in the Drive-By Media got mad that it wasnt being done enough! Some guy named Ali Velshi (who I think use to be at CNN and now is over at PMSNBC) spent the whole afternoon Saturday worrying that not enough people in the media were linking Hurricane Irma to climate change. (snorts)
By virtue of doing that, he was linking Hurricane Irma to climate change! Nothing I said was wrong. The next paragraph. May as well announce this. Im not going to get into details because of the security nature of things, but it turns out that we will not be able to do the program here tomorrow. I said this on Thursday meaning Friday. Well be on the air next week What does that prove? What in the world does it prove?
ecause I never said the hurricane wasnt coming. I never said it wasnt gonna be a Category 4. I never called it fake news. I never did. All I did was tell the truth about it. I explained how the world works and this is intolerable, in the groupthink sphere. Its intolerable in the consensus sphere. Dont forget, these are the people who claim to be the tolerant ones. These are the people claiming to be for fairness and equality and sameness and all this. But, boy, you dont say what they want to hear and they will bust your head.
Controversy swirled around Limbaugh throughout the week after the 66-year-old said that while hes not a meteorologist ' I did point this out because I didnt want people to take what I was saying as in any way official. That was a smart thing to do. (chuckles) This is just beyond my ability to comprehend, especially coming from Concha. Controversy swirled around Limbaugh throughout the week after [he] said that while hes not a meteorologist, and nothing he says should be considered to be a forecast or a prediction ' Right! Hes quoting me.
I didnt predict anything, didnt forecast anything, didnt call it fake news, didnt tell anybody to behave according to what I think you should do. I never went there. Limbaugh believes that hurricanes are often hyped to help increase ratings on the media side while driving sales for retailers who offer storm supplies. Prove to me that that isnt true. Youre just not supposed to say it. Thats the offense. Where are the fact checks to prove that media outlets never use storms to increase ratings? If Im so wrong about this, where is the fact check? Where is the evidence that this doesnt happen in the media?
There is a desire He quotes me again. There is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and hurricanes are one of the fastest and best ways to do it, and he goes on to quote me saying, You dont need a hurricane And, by the way, let me come back to these. You dont even need the hurricane to hit. Panic was created when all of those models that you see to the east of Florida. This was a week before the hurricane hit. Thats where they thought it was gonna go, and yet they were creating a run on plywood and other supplies, batteries and stuff and water, a week out.
When the forecast wasnt even including Florida. Howd they do that? They create fear, create panic. Why? It advances the agenda. They didnt even need this hurricane to hit anywhere in order to advance the agenda with fear and panic. Just the thought that it might, and that its bigger than ever. And then they got on me for pointing out how they create these graphics on TV, these giant red blobs trying to make you think the whole storm And I pointed out that the giant red blob is not the whole storm and what that mostly indicates is the altitude of the highest clouds where the opportunity for convection, i.e., rainfall, is the greatest.
But the whole storm is not where the max winds are. In this case, the eye was a 35-mile-wide diameter. That was where the biggest one its big. All I did was point out things that are demonstrably true. And for that the smear began, and all of it was made up. I know we gotta go to a break, but grab audio sound bite number 1. I just want give you an example of how this manifests itself. This is Friday in Washington at FEMA, Emergency Management Agency. The administrator, Brock Long, held a press conference. And get this question from an unidentified reporter.
REPORTER: Theres even some prominent voices like conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh whos saying this is fake news, the threat is overblown. What would you like to tell those people right now?
LONG: Nobody in Florida that I know has ever experienced a Category 4 or 5 storm making landfall. I can guarantee you that I dont know anybody in Florida thats ever experienced whats about to hit south Florida.
RUSH: Well, in the first place I never said that it was fake news, and I never said the threat was overblown. What I said was that all those early days out theyre creating the fear and advancing the climate change agenda. The evidence is by virtue of the fact that a run on stores happened a week out. Anyway, he doesnt know anybody in Florida whos ever experience aid Category 4 or 5 storm making landfall. Well, there may not be anybody alive that was alive in 1935 now, but its happened, is the point. Its happened. This was not the first time.
But my arguments not with the FEMA guy. The FEMA guy has to say what he has to say. But this Drive-By journalist here, I dont know who it was, theres no curiosity among journalists. They read that I say something, automatically accept it, theyre not even curious. Really? Somebody actually said that? And they dont run it down or check cause they dont want it to not be true. They want it to be true, so they just pretend that it is and use it.
Thats an example of how this manifests itself and metastasizes all over the place. And these are the people that end up spreading disinformation. These are the people that end up causing real damage because they are the people telling people things that arent true.
Anyway, I gotta take a break. Im up against it again on the clock. Well be back and continue. Thats about it for this, folks. There are other examples of this, but this is the biggest attempt these people have made yet. And theres not even a bad joke or even a controversial thing I said about it. Its just that I zeroed in on their agenda. Im not playing along, Im not going along, and so thats unacceptable. That cant be stopped, that cant be tolerated, so they behave as they do.
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RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number 2. Lets go to this Friday. NPR National Public Radio and its a program called On the Media with the NPR host named Bob Garfield. This is how you speak if you are on NPR, you see. And they were talking about this program and my comments with the hyping of hurricanes by the left to advance the climate change agenda. Ive just now got the transcript here. Lets see what this says.
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GARFIELD: The worldwide media and their audiences have gaped in horror at the raw power of these storms. And why? Because of our transparent catastrophe bias.
RUSH ARCHIVE: There havent been more hurricanes and theyre no more dangerous than any others in previous years. But it doesnt matter. Because the bias is built in. There is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and hurricanes are one of the fastest and best ways to do it.
GARFIELD: That was Rush Limbaugh, who, along with much of the right-wing media, is constitutionally incapable of processing the news without seeing a liberal plot.
RUSH: Ha. Yeah, we cant look at the news without seeing liberalism. Thats because its there, Bob. I wish we could miss it. I wish it wasnt there, Bob. But its there. Im sorry, I wish it wasnt there be with Bob. But it is. And we discuss it as we see it here on the EIB Network. Yeah. Lovely.
Right-wing media is constitutionally incapable of processing the news without seeing a liberal plot. So you see, you dont subscribe to the groupthink, you dont subscribe to the belief, Oh, yeah, these hurricanes are worse than ever, and climate change is causing them. Why? Well, after hurricane Hurricane Katrina, Algore had his famous movie and book and he assured everybody that Katrina was just the beginning and theyre all gonna be worse and theyre gonna be more frequent.
But what happened? We went 12 years without a major hurricane striking land in the United States. What happened? Do you think anybody looks back in the Drive-By Media and says Algore blew it? Algore got it wrong? No. No. They just wait for the next storm, and the hype the hell out of it and they start making their point, as though the 12 years didnt happen. But then when an expert is asked about it, like Katy Tur, whose mother is now a man, by the way, or whose father is now a woman, I forget. Shes an NBC infobabe.
She was interviewing Sam Champion, and I think we have this in the sound bites, but anyway, she mentioned to him (paraphrasing), Look, Sam, I dont mean to put you on the spot here, Sam, but there were 12 years that went by without a major and Champion was befuddled. Sam Champion, big global warming/climate change believer, and he didnt know how to answer the question. And she was just reluctant as she could be to even ask it. She was just having all kinds of problems. I dont mean to put you on the spot. Even when theyre asked the question about it, they hem and haw and come up with convenient answers for it.
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RUSH: Yeah, I knew this gonna happen, so I checked email, Are you gonna do the whole show on the huricane? No. No. Its not about me, folks. This is about much more than me. I mean, the human debris on social media, the amount of lies and disinformation and smearing of people, its happening to many, many more than just me out there, and this is a great teachable moment to illustrate it.
Just same ole, same ole ad nauseum.
Too plus to is for.
He is getting so bogged down in BS anymore.
He should have real problems, like Trump being hounded by Inspector Javer
First of all, thanks to Kaslin for the post, as I heard the very beginning, but missed most of it.
But I think you misunderestimate the tide that Rush is bucking, whether libtards are braindead or not. And also, I am totally in sympathy with the gist of Rush's screed, and ready to chime in on most of it.
... and I believe he is totally sincere when he he says, "... it's not about me" :-)
I heard the original broadcast again over the weekend. Rush sort of played both sides. On one hand he adevised people that he’s not an expert. On the other he said he follows some storm expert that indicated a miss. Then he went on to have a discussion of how the media hypes these events to raise ratings and sell advertising. And the was a dose of using the storms as fodder to advance a climate change narative.
Ok, do he follows an expert who sort of dismissed a Florida landfall with a discussion of how the media hypes these things and advertisers liking the hype to sell water and plywood and it’s easy to come to the conclusion of he was in a way pooh poohing it.
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